WTF? They're worried they're not visible on the internet? Sweetie, we see your greed in pictures, your sexual scandals, relocation of abusers without punishment and other problems within your organization. You want to win converts? Practice what you preach and teach through example, not spamming those ignoring you.

If what the pope said was true, then I would have been charged $15/month to use Facebook since 2009, and I would have been visited and summarily executed by several malevolent supernatural beings for not spreading idiotic chain messages.

In other news, the Catholic church holds outdated and sometimes downright ass-backwards views on many things in the world today, is out of touch with a large percentage of parishioners, and couldn't really give less of a damn as long as you keep giving them money/power. More at 11.

"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

Ha, now two UCB references I've seen on fark this week. I tried looking for a copy of the text I have on my computer with a bunch of lines from an old bucket of truth website they had back in the day. It had a picture of the bucket and you could click on it to look in and get a dose of unmitigated, unadulterated, immutable truth. Fairly amusing stuff, at least if you found the bucket of truth amusing in the first place.

/Now if you excuse me, I'm going to go back to stocking up on poo sticks and supercool.

"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

Seriously, stfu. Also, god watches you masturbate.

If God spends his time watching me masturbate, that would explain why none of the prayers from Africa get answered. Because I am a wanking machine.

The Church of Rome stands for everything, and I mean EVERY. GODDAM. THING. Jesus held in contempt.

Think about it: Jesus was executed for causing a riot at the Temple of Jerusalem during Passover because he was disgusted by how the religious authorities had turned the Temple into a bank to steal from widows. The Vatican owns its own bank that launders money for the mafia. (That's not a conspiracy theory, it was discovered during an official criminal investigation.) Jesus commanded those who would teach on his behalf to impoverish themselves. The pope wears a triple crown and sits on a golden throne inside a palace where he lives amid regal splendor. Jesus called pharisees hypocrites and snakes and warned about the false teachers that would distort his teachings. Catholicism was founded by a pharisee and eventually co-opted the titles and habits of Imperial Rome (their name and location, the title "pontiff," red shoes of Rome's senatorial caste, contempt for women, etc.)

Catholicism hasn't the slightest resemblance to the teachings of Jesus.

Deep Contact:The Church of Rome has shed more innocent blood than any other institution that has ever existed among mankind.

fear not. now more than ever they are exposed for what they are. church goers have turned away from the catholic church in droves. while there are many good faithful people that are true believers who perform acts of kindness and charity, those in Vatican City are self-destructing. the damage they have done is irrepairable and it will be their undoing.

What he says has f*ck all to do with nothing, with the possible exception of someone we can all feel okay about hating because he let thousands of depraved pervs victimize kids around the world and knew it the entire time and probably was doing it himself or else why not turn them in for the love.of.CHRIST you stupid old ass f*ckity-f*ck!